The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

Lorna Sage (Edited by)

9780521668132, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 September 1999

706 pages, 100 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 3.6 cm, 1.11 kg

' … features nearly 2,400 short articles on writers, their writings and the genres to which they contribute … some two dozen entries on genres and sub-types recognize the importance of 'minor' prose genres such as the diary, travel writing, and even cookery books, the last sorely neglected in most treatments of women's writing.' The Times Literary Supplement

This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and republished. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present day. The book reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of post-colonial cultures using and changing the English language. The entries are written by contributors from all the countries covered. The result is a work of reference with a unique feeling for the vitality, wealth and diversity of women's writing.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]